I’ve done daily quests from time to time with my frost mage Aksana for a little extra income. With a frost mage they are terribly easy. But just recently I started doing them with Jess. Oh the pain! One reason for this exercise in masochism was that I needed two more Badges of Justice to get Slikk’s Cloak of Placation based on the recommendation of some folks that commented on an earlier post. I just barely managed to get two Badges of Justice after two days of dailies. The last one came off the last daily I did late last night. But I am very happy with the cloak. Not only is it a good tanking cloak, but it looks great with the gear I’ve been picking up in Karazhan lately. The other reason is that the SSO rep may be useful if I don’t get the right drops in the near future. Keredria kindly helped me with some quests last night on the Isle of Quel’Danas. The only thing more pathetic than a protection warrior trying to do DPS is having their moonfire-spamming healer pull aggro off them repeatedly.
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Even prot spec, you can do the dailies under an hour. (Those on the island itself)
Put your DPS gear on AoE farm the mobs. My gear is far from beign the best and I could keep 3 mobs on me most of the time (except for casters, which I had to take out 1 at a time).
Find an order that suits you best to do the quest, avoid unncessary travelling. Turn them in all in one shot per spot.
If you take more than 1 hous to do all the dailies on the isle, there’s something wrong.
A DPS class can nearly cut this time in half if they’re lucky with drops.
I know… last night brought back memories of our questing days. Its odd now to see Jess lose aggro and run after a mob… while I am jumping up and down excited about a spell crit for 1700.
Gear makes a big difference. You want a lot ofdps, and a lot of +hit. Ragesteel armor is good, and easy to obtain. You want the biggest, slowest main hand weapon you can get, something decent in your off-hand, and then spam devastate (shouts and overpowers as applicable, too). Not only does do the most damage, it also makes it easier to keep the dang healzor from pulling aggro since you get sunders applied fast.
Alternatively, just wear your tanking gear. Shield slams and revenge do quite a bit of damage and the better trade-off is not much downtime. You’ll be dodging and blocking so much that you won’t take nearly as much damage as dual-wielding. If you have a slow main hand like Ratshag mentioned that helps out a ton, also shield block value to beef up the shield slams.
I prefer DPS/PVP/BV gear and a shield for doing dailies, but for farming primal life in Zangor dual-wielding is the way to go
Hell yes onthe slow mainhand weapon, too.
Something odd I noticed doing the Maintaining the Portal daily quest in blade’s edge: if you use Spell Reflect while fighting the mana-worms it reflects back their burn shield for 5 seconds without eating up the spell reflect charge.
Oh, just saw Tankspot had an article for prot warrior farming.
http://www.tankspot.com/forums/damage-per-second-discussion/36916-casual-prot-warrior-s-guide-dps-soloing.html
DPS gear will make it much, much better. Since you don’t have precision, you want to stack hit rating until you have 142, and then focus on str and crit… the rest has already been said, so not much more to add…
I’m with you on the pain of doing the dailies. While I know I need the money, it’s just painful to do them all over and over and over and over…
The payoff is the SSO exalted neck item, though…especially if you’re also exalted with the, to borrow from Ratshag, Aldorks/Scrybabies.
Just do what I did. Evertime I got sick of doing the dailies I went to the SSO quartermaster and drooled over the shield for about 5 minutes. That was enough motivation for me.
I week away from getting Exated (I do only the Island quest since theeir location is concentrated). Can’t wait to get that new neckpiece. the shild was tempting, but since I have my S2, it is less tempting for me.
Okay, I fail at life. Or something. I’ve been reading K’s blog since Day 1 (almost literally, I believe); where did I miss the fact you too have a blog? (And quite fun run to read, to boot!) While I don’t tank, I do have a healer, so I tend to read a good bit of tankage prose. (I read Ratter’s blog, too, but not for tanking tips.
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Since it’s 1:30am here, adding you to my blogroll will have to wait, but glad to have finally found you, Jess!
Thank you for your advice and encouragement everyone. I’ve been diligently doing my dailies. It hasn’t been so bad. A couple more days and I will be revered which will give me access to better weapons for grinding.
@Kestrel: No worries and welcome.